Medical Neglect

The prison inmate are humans just like you and I. Some
are good people and some are bad people. Many are in prisons
because of drugs (selling, using, stealing to get money for drugs,
murder while committing a robbery, murder during a drug buy that went
bad.) If these people were not on drugs would they be in
prison? Probably not. Is the fact of their addiction an
excuse for their crime? No.

Many of them find
themselves in prison and realize that they are there because of their
drug addiction. Many recover from their addiction. Many
have Hepatitis C and AIDS from their drug use. Hepatitis C is
also spread in the prison system because of unsanitary
conditions.

As in the communities outside the walls the
inmates inside the walls are subject to disease. Cancer and
other life threatening diseases are also found in prison. Any
disease in prison can become life threatening because of medical
neglect. There are doctors who are not licensed to practice
medicine, incompetent doctors who can not work elsewhere.
There are also nursed who never heard of TLC or think it means
Treat Like Crap. Then you have prisoners as aids who in some
cases are the only ones who have any competance and in other cases
are as bad as the others. Then comes the guards who do not give
a shit.

Hepititas, AIDS and other deseases go untreated.
Infections are caused by neglect. Prisoners in extreme
pain are not given pain pills. The more I see the more I wonder
what country I am in and what century this is. The conditions
in many if not most prisons are pre midevil conditions.

Are
the majority of people in this country asleep? Are our leaders
asleep? I was asleep but when I got involved in this web site I
woke up. What I have found since the middle of June, 2002
has made me sick. I blame the Governors for the abuse because
they have to know if they do not they are incompetant. It
is not hidden. All you have to do is go to the search engines
and look up prisons, abuse, innocent and death and most of what I
have in this website will be there.